A telco-video provider and a radio station sought FCC waivers of emergency alert...
A telco-video provider and a radio station sought FCC waivers of emergency alert system rules for the newer common alerting protocol, which all EAS participants must use to receive and pass along messages by month’s end (CD June 13 p5).…
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Windstream seeks a temporary, “brief” waiver because of an “unexpected delay in delivery of equipment necessary for compliance” until it gets the gear, tests and installs it. Windstream’s Lakedale, Minn., unit “exercised diligence in placing an order for the CAP-to-EAS converter that would be delivered prior to June 1, 2012 to allow sufficient time to install and test the new equipment prior to the implementation deadline,” a filing said (http://xrl.us/bnbvnx). “Unfortunately, Windstream Lakedale recently learned that delivery of its order has been delayed until mid-July, reportedly due to the large number of other EAS participants ordering such equipment for delivery at roughly the same time so as to comply with the Commission’s mandate.” EAS participants and vendors told us of such delays due to some other orders they contend needed to have been placed earlier for gear that converts alerts in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s CAP format into EAS alerts that radio and TV stations and subscription-video providers send to customers. Kenai Broadcasting wants a waiver for KKNI Sterling, Alaska, because the FM station can’t get Internet service at its transmitter. “Even if KKNI were to acquire and install CAP capable equipment, it would not be able to communicate with the CAP system,” a filing said (http://xrl.us/bnbvn5). The filings were posted Thursday to docket 04-296.